...So now what?

For the past week and a half I've successfully put off putting anything more strenuous than a token effort into job-hunting. While my procrastination skills are second to none, there are only so many times you can masturbate or rearrange audio equipment in a day. I need something more substantial to waste my time over. So the blog I'd been talking about starting has been born.

But what to blog about? Obviously my wisdom is well worth documenting, but shouldn't a blog have some kind of USP? A concept to wrap my posts around? Well I could stick to a topic, something I'm interested in. Like music for example. I quickly decided hearing about how great the gig was last night isn't that great in the pub, let alone on the internet without the bullshit-masking effects of alcohol. I'd probably get bored of coming up with fresh hyperbole to describe songs I like every day, or the endless search to find 'really exciting' new bands to be really excited about. I'm far too interesting and multi-faceted to blog about just one thing anyway, so that idea is firmly out the window.

Perhaps I could just pour my thoughts and feelings into the ether, bill it as a personal journal and if some of it turns out to be interesting so much the better. I like the idea of this approach, but I couldn't possibly be honest. Everything post would be calculated to make my life sound like a fulfilling, exciting experience. Which would a) be very boring, and b) not work because I'd balls it up. So no joy there.

How about a quirky format? Every post could be presented in 5 bullet points. Or I could always start with the same sentence. But the problem is those ideas are incredibly unoriginal, which is the last thing I want, and oh for Christ's sake I've already over-thought the whole process. I'm going to resign myself to making it up as I go along. I suppose if the worst comes to the worst I can just hunt for meaningless platitudes in a nice font that someone has mistaken for wisdom and stick them under a grainy photo of a skinny girl with a cigarette. Seems to work for Tumblr.

Tumblr.

Something I like today: BBQ weather, and the wasps are nearly all dead!

Something I don't like today: Indirectly calling someone out on facebook without saying who. You know who you are.